Articles

  • Why brand a nation?
    Q&A • 1 May 06
    Thebe Ikalafeng gets the inside track from the globe's leading nation branding specialists, Simon Anholt and Wally Olins. >
  • Selling SA: View to a thrill
    Design News • 1 May 06
    HKLM uses a viewfinder to show brand South Africa at its best. >
  • Selling SA: Flying high
    Design News • 1 May 06
    Two Tone flights the national bird as a symbol of our country's future. >
  • Selling SA: Feel it!
    Design News • 1 May 06
    In branding South Africa, Switch delivers an icon that comes from the heart. >
  • High Priestman
    Design News • 1 May 06
    Paul Priestman's divine designs include super trains, gigantic aeroplanes and even a humble kitchen knife block. >
  • Mr Pen
    Design News • 1 May 06
    Emile Pen has the illustration world's most fortunate surname, accompanied by a signature style that has more to do with sheer talent. >
  • Hand in
    Inside View • 1 May 06
    Award-winning author and illustrator Heather Moore gives us a hands-on approach to the modern-day affair with old-fashioned ways. >
  • Fashion revolution
    Opinion • 1 May 06
    After centuries of international copying, the past decade has proved revolutionary for SA fashion, writes Adam Levin. >
  • Blurring the brief
    Lookbook • 1 May 06
    Iconic theatre impresario and iconoclastic designer, Pluto Panoussis presents a retrospective spanning 10 years of his theatre posters. >
  • New media marvels
    Opinion • 1 May 06
    Getting animated about this year's new media superheroes is CNMA judge and editor of the UK's Creative Review magazine, Patrick Burgoyne. >
  • Design Indaba 2006: Words from the seats
    Festival News • 28 Mar 06
    What some of the conference delegates had to say about Design Indaba 2006. >
  • Speak your mind at Design Indaba 2006
    Festival News • 8 Feb 06
    GET YOUR MONEY BACK at the 2006 Design Indaba Conference! >
  • Moving on up
    Opinion • 1 Feb 06
    Going high-tech isn't always the answer to rural transport problems. Sometimes the way forward lies with simple yet sustainable solutions. >
  • Design Philistines?
    Opinion • 1 Feb 06
    Does South Africa have a design culture? Not really, opines award-winning industrial designer Bernard Smith. >
  • A new visual taal
    Next Generation • 1 Feb 06
    The next generation of "alternatiewe" Afrikaners is creating a glorious, guilt-free visual language for the South Africa of their tomorrow. >
  • illustration by Christoph Niemann
    From the archives: Head for humour
    Q&A • 1 Feb 06
    Christoph Niemann's pictures paint a thousand witty words. In this interview, we profile the illustrator's more serious side. >
  • Sold!
    Festival News • 1 Feb 06
    If cash is king, then the Design Indaba Expo 2006 will be a right royal affair, what with a record number of buyers due to attend. >
  • Contact lens
    Opinion • 1 Feb 06
    Making contact, even if only momentarily, with the subject in front of her lens gives upcoming portrait snapper Sarah Nankin her focus. >
  • Matali on herself
    Design News • 1 Feb 06
    Both valuable and useful, the collectable creations of French product designer Matali Crasset are climbing their way into design history. >
  • Wordplay
    Opinion • 1 Feb 06
    Well-known anthropologist and author, Marc Augé writes about why Matali Crasset's work is hard to define in words. >
  • Next, please!
    Next Generation • 1 Feb 06
    After longstanding complaints about a dearth of fresh talent in the industry, a new wave of product designers has at last emerged. >
  • Red hot
    Opinion • 1 Feb 06
    The first African company to win a coveted Red Dot Design Award proves that South Africa has the potential. >
  • Story teller
    Opinion • 1 Feb 06
    Design brings stories to life. Or so says Yves Béhar, whose own tale is made up of one brand success story after another. >
  • Wine wins
    Opinion • 1 Nov 05
    What happens when you grab a bunch of juicy Gauteng students and team them up with renowned graphics guru and self-confessed wino Ken Cato? >
  • Bling!
    Festival News • 1 Nov 05
    The Design Indaba Expo 2006 takes the crown for mounting the largest curated exhibition of contemporary South African jewellery to date. >
  • The bigger apple
    The bigger apple
    Opinion • 1 Nov 05
    What happens when you take an African-American designer from New York to Africa for the first time and expect him to work with crafters? >
  • De-colonising design
    Opinion • 1 Nov 05
    What would the design landscape of Africa look like if colonialism had never happened? Carl Harrison asks the tricky, pertinent question… >
  • Pieter Hugo
    Boss Hugo
    Lookbook • 1 Nov 05
    Photographer Pieter Hugo is rapidly climbing to the top of his game. >
  • He said, she said
    Design News • 1 Nov 05
    Award-winning duo Birsel+Seck also happen to design their lives together. >
  • Cultural nomad
    Q&A • 1 Nov 05
    The talents of the Indian-born, Amsterdam-based product designer Satyendra Pakhalé migrate happily from one design oasis to the next. >

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